It's fine for a project to have moral/ideological leanings, it's only weird if you insist that project teams should be entirely amoral.

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trollbridge 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The main reason open source projects exist at all is because of people who started them with quite often fringe ideological leanings. Just look at the GNU project.

	▲	UqWBcuFx6NV4r an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It’s nowhere near 2003 anymore, and whether you or I like it or not there is a far greater visitation in ideology than there used to be. Your point is basically irrelevant.
	▲	Joker_vD 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		And fringe economical leanings, too. Just look at the GNU project: the firmware in printers is still of subpar quality, and GNU didn't really help to change that... and why on Earth would it, anyway?

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Joker_vD 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> It's fine for a project to have moral/ideological leanings

As long as they align with the correct (i.e. yours) values, of course. When they adopt the wrong values, it's not fine.

	▲	debugnik 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		There's still a line between values I disagree with and values that directly attack me as a person. The former is how many of us feel about some of our dependencies and most proprietary software we use, so it's clearly fine to some degree.
	▲	jonathrg 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		But it is fine. If I disagree with a project's values I'm not going to contribute to it, and they wouldn't want me there either.